Hist. Forms: 1 swuluncg, sulung (rare sulong), Domesday Bk. solin, 2 solling, (also 7 Hist.) swuling, (also 9 Hist.) swilling, 2–3 (also 7–9 Hist.) sulling, suling, 4 swol(l)ing, -yng, swyling, suyling, 4–5 swylling, 9 Hist. sullung. [OE. swulung, sulung, probably vbl. sb. of an unrecorded vb. *swul(h)ian, *sul(h)ian to plough, f. *swulh, sulh plough, SULLOW. The generally accepted view that sulung is f. sulh + lang, long long (Sweet, in Anglia, III. 151) and that it is therefore parallel to furlong (f. furh furrow + long) cannot be maintained in face of the divergent form-history and meaning of the two words.] In Kent, the fiscal unit corresponding to the hide (see HIDE sb.2) and the carucata (see CARUCATE) of other counties.

1

  In Latin documents relating to Kent it is called aratrum: cf. PLOUGH sb. 3 a.

2

  A term that has been erron. identified with this word is solanda, scolanda, scotlanda in Domesday of St. Paul’s (Camden Soc.), 58, 93, 99, 142, 145, 151: see J. H. Round in Eng. Hist. Rev., VII. 708. foll.

3

805.  in Birch, Cart. Sax. (1885), I. 449. Aliquam in Cantia partiunculam terræ hoc est duorum manentium, ubi Sueordhlincas vocitantur Iuxta distributionem suarum utique terrarum ritu saxonica án sulung seu in alia loco mediam partem unius mansiunculæ id est án geocled ubi ab incolis Ecgheanng lond appellatur.

4

805.  Charter, in O. E. Texts, 442. Þisses londes earan ðrie sulong æt hæʓyðe ðorne. Ibid. (805–31), 443. Ðæt lond æt stanhamstede, xx swuluncga.

5

835.  Will, in Thorpe, Dipl. Angl. Sax. (1865), 470. & him man sælle an half swulung an Ciollandene.

6

973.  in Birch, Cart. Sax. (1893), III. 610. Decem mansas, quod Cantigene dicunt, x. sulunga.

7

1086.  Domesday Book (1783), I. 2. De communitate Sancti Martini habent simul iii. canonici unum solin & xvi. acras.

8

c. 1140.  Inst. Cnuti (Liebermann), 295 (MS. H). Scotum ad luminaria … ter in anno uno detur de unaquaque hyda (id est suling, c. 1160 Colbert MS. sulinghida).

9

11[?].  Bk. Battle Abbey, in Selden, Titles Honor (1631), 636. Cum omnibus apenditijs suis septem Swillingarum id est, Hidarum.

10

1196.  in Archaeol. Cant., I. 234. De una sollinga terræ et dimidia, cum pertinenciis, in Estretling.

11

1209–10.  in Archæol. Cant. V. 284. De medietate unius sullinge terre.

12

12[?].  MS. Cott. Vesp., A. xx. 69 b. Svthfliet defendit se per v sulingos cum dimidio sulingi de pole.

13

1364.  W. Thorne, Chron., in Twysden, Hist. Angl. Script. (1652), 2140. Et debent pro quelibet Swollinga xiv d. per annum pro Schippeshere, timberlode, & bordlode.

14

  a. 1667.  Skinner, Etymol. Ling. Angl. (1671), Swuling vel Suling.

15

1706.  Phillips (ed. Kersey), Swoling or Suling of Land.

16

1867.  C. J. Elton, Tenures of Kent, vi. 124. Opinions have been much divided on this point, viz. whether the Kentish suling corresponded in size to the Norman carucate.

17

1897.  Maitland, Domesday & Beyond, 124. At Peckham the Archbishop had an estate which had been rated at six sullungs.

18

  b.  attrib.: † suling-land = PLOUGH-GATE; † suling-man, (a) a man chosen from the tenants of a suling to collect the dues belonging thereto; (b) a service due from tenants of a suling.

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1364.  W. Thorne, Chron., xxvii. § 1, in Twysden, Hist. Angl. Script. (1652), 2140. Quae servicia & consuetudines ipsi tenantes annuatim faciunt & solummodo præter corporale servicium quod vocatur Swollyngman. Ibid. iij. rodas dimidiam de terra vocata Swollyngland quæ tenentur per diversa servicia subsequentia.

20

1440–1.  in Twysden, Hist. Angl. Script. (1652), Gloss. s.v. Sulinga, Singuli tenentes omnium & singularum prædictarum Swyllingarum, § 38. acrar. terræ de Swyllingland … eligent & eligere debent de qualibet Swyllinga, unum de seipsis qui nominetur Swyllingmannus.

21

[1887.  Parish & Shaw, Dict. Kent. Dial., Swilling-land, a plough land.]

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